Programming Guides
Browse our range of programming guides, coding books, and reference materials for makers, students, and hobbyists across Australia. From beginner-friendly introductions to advanced topics covering microcontrollers, game development, and sensor networks, you'll find resources to support your next project.
Whether you're teaching STEM in the classroom, learning to code at home, or levelling up your maker skills, these guides cover popular platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Python, and Scratch. Fast shipping available Australia-wide.
The Pi-Hole Smart Book
SKU: LB-PIHOLEBOOK | Brand: Little Bird
Transform your digital experience with our interactive guide to Pi-hole, the powerful network-wide ad blocking solution. Perfect for both beginners and networking enthusiasts, this digital book makes securing y...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico, 2nd Edition
SKU: RP-MAG71 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Get Started with MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico (2nd Edition) is the official guide to programming the Raspberry Pi Pico using the beginner-friendly MicroPython language. Learn to write programs, connect electronic ...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Code the Classics Volume II
SKU: RP-MAG74 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Code the Classics Volume II is a hands-on guide to recreating iconic 1980s video games while learning the fundamentals of game development. Written by Andrew Gillett with contributions from Raspberry Pi co-founder Ebe...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Programming the Pico: Learn Coding & Electronics w/ the Pico
SKU: AF-5320 | Brand: Adafruit
This book will teach you Python programming and some basic electronics without assuming any prior knowledge of either subject. The book initially focuses on Python programming, building up a Morse Code example using t...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python [Second Edition]
SKU: AF-1089 | Brand: Adafruit
Program your own Raspberry Pi projects!An updated guide to programming your own Raspberry Pi projects. Learn to create inventive programs and fun games on your powerful Raspberry Pi--with no programming experience req...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Getting Started with the BBC Micro:Bit
SKU: LB-00248 | Brand: Little Bird
Mike Tooley's book will show you how the micro:bit can be used in a wide range of applications from simpe domestic gadgets to more complex control systems such as those used for lighting, central heating and securi...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Sew Electric
SKU: SF-BOK-12019 | Brand: SparkFun
If you’re interested in interactive toys, smart accessories, or light-up fashions, this book is for you! Sew Electric is a set of hands-on LilyPad Arduino tutorials that bring together craft, electronics, and programm...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
SparkFun Inventor's Kit Guidebook - v4.1a
SKU: SF-BOK-15884 | Brand: SparkFun
The full-color SparkFun Inventor's Kit Guidebook V4.1a contains step by step instructions with circuit diagrams and hookup tables for building each project and circuit. Full example code is provided, new concepts and ...
Delivered by Tue 23 Jun
Raspberry Pi: A Quick-Start Guide
SKU: LB-00035 | Brand: Little Bird
Description: Prolific hacker and successful author Simon Monk helps you solve specific issues for using Raspberry Pi, the $35 system on a chip that's taking the computer and electronics world by storm. This ...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Adventures in Python
SKU: LB-1118951794 | Brand: Little Bird
A beginner-friendly guide to Python programming for young people aged 11–15. Adventures in Python takes you through nine hands-on projects that build your skills from zero to confident programmer, with video clips acc...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Getting Started with littleBits
SKU: LB-00312 | Brand: Little Bird
A hands-on guide to building electronic circuits, robots, and cloud-connected devices using littleBits — the snap-together magnetic electronic building blocks. Co-authored by littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir and top-sell...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Unplugged Tots
SKU: RP-MAG83 | Brand: Raspberry Pi Ltd
Introduce your child to the foundations of computer coding so that they have the skills for their future, now. Prepare children to be the problem-solvers, inventors, engineers, scientists, and technologists of tomor...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Make: mBot for Makers
SKU: LB-MBOTBOOK | Brand: Little Bird
The mBot robotics platform is a hugely popular kit because of the quality of components and price. With hundreds of thousands of these kits out there in homes, schools and makerspaces, there is much untapped potential...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Bots! Robotics Engineering with Hands-On Makerspace Activities - By Kathy Ceceri
SKU: AF-4348 | Brand: Adafruit
We are very excited to carry a new book by Adafruit Learning System author and maker Kathy Ceceri! Robots are everywhere! They vacuum our houses, work in our factories, help us learn at school, and play with...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition
SKU: PI-BK0114 | Brand: Pimoroni
Learn the Raspberry Pi 3 from the experts! Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition is the "unofficial official" guide to everything Raspberry Pi 3. Written by the Pi's creator and a leading Pi guru, this book goes straig...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Programming Arduino: Getting Started with Sketches
SKU: TB-BM7133 | Brand: Little Bird
This entry level book explains what an Arduino microcontroller actually is (i.e. a very small stand alone computer), introduces you to the Arduino programming language (called, C) and then describes the basic configur...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Getting Started with Adafruit FLORA
SKU: AF-1839 | Brand: Adafruit
Making Wearables with an Arduino-Compatible Electronics PlatformThis book introduces readers to building wearable electronics projects using Adafruit's tiny FLORA board: at 4.4 grams, and only 1.75 inches in diameter...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Python for Microcontrollers: Getting Started with MicroPython
SKU: AF-3325 | Brand: Adafruit
MicroPython is a tiny open-source Python programming language interpreter that runs on microcontroller, originally written by Damien George (http://micropython.org/). With MicroPython you can write clean and simple...
Delivered by Thu 2 Jul
Electrical Engineering 101 - (3rd Edition)
SKU: SF-BOK-09458 | Brand: SparkFun
Everything you should have learned in school, but probably didn’t! This book is great for electronics newbies, or if you just need a refresher course. Topics ranging from Ohm’s law to proper usage of an oscilloscope t...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun
Adventures in Coding
SKU: LB-ADVCODING | Brand: Little Bird
Learn to code from scratch with 11 hands-on projects using the Scratch programming language. Written by coding experts Eva Holland and Chris Minnick, Adventures in Coding takes complete beginners from zero to app-buil...
Delivered by Fri 12 Jun